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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

Ramana Maharshi

Then all this earth shines like one house.
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Earth Home Oneself Shine
Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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Greatness Realize Service Yourself
The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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Deep Dissolve Philosophy Question Wisdom
By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
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Art Path Reach Stage Surrender Yourself
The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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Bliss Enjoyment Investigate Mindset Thinking
There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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Future Past Present Science Time
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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Degree Focus Freedom Measurement Progress Spiritual
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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Experience Perfection Reality Silence
Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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Focus Form Help Meditation Mindset
All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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Ego Freedom Ignorance Sadness Trouble Yourself
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Bliss Kind Knowledge Man Reality
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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Consciousness Ego Existence Lying Oneself Rise
We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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Appearance Attention Light Object Pay Reveal
Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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Adopt Oneself Return
Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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Affect Food Harmony Mindset Necessary Practice Purity
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Aspect Happiness Mindset Nature Pain Pleasure

If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

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